Chapter 1414 Entry Notice
After knocking Zhang Zhihai down, Ji Qingzhi couldn't help but pat his palms. He hadn't practiced for a long time and felt a little rusty. She lowered her eyes to look at the person lying on the ground, her tone full of coldness: "Do you want to try again?"
Zhang Zhihai was a little confused when he was suddenly thrown to the ground. Until he heard Ji Qingzhi's voice, he said angrily: "You beat up a customer, I'm going to call the police."
"Okay, call the police." Ji Qingzhi looked calm and glanced at the camera above.
"Okay, haven't you lost enough face? If we call the police about this, do you think you are innocent?" Li Jian was speechless and regretted his big mouth more and more. If he had come quietly with Xu Yu'an, none of these troubles would have happened.
"If this really gets reported to the police, the school will probably have to give an explanation too. Let's just stop now." Xu Yu'an lowered his voice and looked at Zhang Zhihai.
Zhang Zhihai lowered his eyes and thought carefully about what they said. Indeed, there were surveillance cameras. He was the first to touch the things in the store. If he went to the police, the best outcome would be a slap on the wrist. Moreover, if the school knew about it, he would probably lose the scholarship he had been striving for recently. He raised his head and snorted at Ji Qingzhi: "For their sake, I will let you go this time."
Ji Qingzhi sneered when he heard this: "No need, how about I call the police for you?"
"Hmph, I don't want to bother with you." After saying that, Zhang Zhihai quickly got up from the ground, brushed off the non-existent dust on his body, then turned around and strode outside.
"Sorry, he's a little weird." Xu Yu'an felt a little embarrassed when he saw Ji Qingzhi's look. After all, they were the ones who brought him here.
"It doesn't matter, you are you and he is him." Ji Qingzhi shook her head. She thought, next time that idiot comes, she would just not do business with him.
"The dishes here taste great. I will recommend them to my friends and classmates." Xu Yu'an added.
"Okay, thank you." Ji Qingzhi thought that she could get points as rewards by unlocking new dishes, so she naturally hoped that the more customers would come, the better. Of course, she didn't need idiots like the one just now.
As if he could see what she was thinking, Xu Yu'an quickly added, "Well, there are still many normal people around us. The one just now was an exception."
Ji Qingzhi was amused by his words, and then nodded at him while laughing.
"You look beautiful when you smile." Xu Yu'an felt that his "occupational disease" had come back again. He subconsciously reached for the camera hanging on his chest, but his hand missed. Only then did he realize what he had just said.
"Thank you, many people say so." Ji Qingzhi's words were true. When she first debuted, she shot a lot of print advertisements. Everyone said that she looked beautiful and very contagious when she smiled, but shooting prints is different from filming a movie after all. When it comes to filming directors, her smile is too deliberate and unnatural.
"I hope I can take a photo of you when I have the chance. Goodbye." Xu Yu'an waved at her.
Looking at his back as he ran away, Ji Qingzhi couldn't help but shook his head. He really is a person who loves photography.
When Xu Yu'an arrived, Li Jian had already called a taxi, but it was still five minutes away. Zhang Zhihai had a stern face since he came out of Ji's restaurant, and now he deliberately kept a distance from the two of them.
This was exactly what the two wanted. Zhang Zhihai, who was standing over there, looked increasingly dark. His eyes fell on Xu Yu'an, who had just returned, and he said in a bad tone, "What did you say to that woman just now?"
"I'd like to thank her for not calling the police on your behalf, otherwise it would be bad if she had a criminal record." Xu Yu'an successfully used the method of talking nonsense to shut up the person next to him.
Seeing this, Li Jian gave him a thumbs up and whispered, "You still have a way."
"Stay away from him in the future." Xu Yu'an reminded.
"That's right. He is too prone to causing trouble." Li Jian was also dissatisfied when talking about what happened today. It was supposed to be a very enjoyable thing to come here to eat delicious food, but it turned out like this because of him.
Zhang Zhihai saw the two people whispering and felt that they were teasing him. He looked unhappy and was about to question them when the online car-hailing service arrived. His face darkened and he decided to go back to school first.
After witnessing Ji Qingzhi's over-the-shoulder throw, all of Aunt Liu's worries were instantly swallowed back into her stomach. She really didn't expect Ji Qingzhi to be so powerful.
Seeing the surprise and curiosity in Aunt Liu's eyes, Ji Qingzhi smiled and explained, "My father sent me to learn self-defense since I was a child."
Old Ji always felt that as a girl, she must have the ability to protect herself, so he insisted on sending her to learn these things. She only stopped going after she signed with the company. In fact, thanks to Lao Ji's persistence, she was able to protect herself when she encountered certain schemes in the circle. It was also after that incident that more and more negative news about her began to appear.
"That's how it should be." Aunt Liu nodded in agreement.
"Auntie, let's eat first." Ji Qingzhi reminded, because the sudden visit of the three people just now disrupted their lunch plans.
When Ji Qingzhi put the dishes into the microwave to heat them up, she thought that next time they wouldn't have to wait to eat together, and whoever was free could eat first. She looked down at the plates in the microwave and decided to order two microwaveable plates later.
There is naturally a difference in taste between heated dishes and dishes just out of the pot. Ji Qingzhi frowned unconsciously when she took the first bite of spareribs, and then smiled bitterly. It is true that it is easy for people to go from frugality to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality. She could eat the lunch boxes that had been cold for several hours during filming without any expression on her face, but now she actually began to dislike the heated spareribs.
Aunt Liu looked very happy while eating. It was no exaggeration to say that the food here by Ji Qingzhi was the best among the several families where she worked as a helper, so she worked more seriously.
When Ji Qingzhi waited for Aunt Liu to clean up the dishes and go to the kitchen, she went to the backyard again. She first went to the well to take a look. The drop of water seemed to be just an ordinary drop of rainwater, but Ji Qingzhi's intuition told her that it was not that simple.
After staying by the well for two minutes, she went to the vegetable garden. There were still water droplets on the shallots she had just planted, which were refracted by the sunlight into beautiful rainbow disks. She squatted down and observed carefully, and found that the shallots that she had just buried diagonally in the soil had now become upright. Even though she didn't know anything about farming, she thought this was a bit fast.
In order to verify her guess, she took the well water pipe and watered Lao Ji's vegetable garden next to her again. She had tried to save Lao Ji's vegetable garden, but it still gave people a feeling of being shaky and about to completely wither. She hoped that it would work this time.
After finishing watering, Ji Qingzhi put away the hose and went to the front yard. She took some photos before watering and planned to compare them tomorrow. She turned around and left so decisively that she naturally did not see the cabbages that had just been watered slowly unfold their leaves.
After lunch, the store became deserted again. The person who had planned to come to Linyin Road to open the store for her every day left after seeing Li Jian and the other three come in. At the same time, he was still underestimating the truthfulness of the words in the group. Is it really that delicious?
Ji Qingzhi packed up the remaining braised food, which Jiang Wei was going to bring to his colleagues. Thinking of the points she had gained from unlocking new dishes today, she had already started thinking about how to attract more customers.
Before she could think it through, she heard a ding, and then a cookbook suddenly appeared in her mind. "The cookbook was exchanged successfully, and the points were reset to zero."
"Damn, when did I have to exchange the recipe?" Ji Qingzhi couldn't help but swear. God knows, she was just thinking in her mind whether Old Ji had any "secrets", but she didn't expect that the system would directly exchange the recipe for her.
For a moment, Ji Qingzhi was angry and helpless, and couldn't help but start to doubt the system: "Can I really earn points to exchange for Baining Pills like this?"
“How can you accumulate points if you can’t unlock new dishes?” The ancestor’s voice echoed in my mind.
"Don't we still have you?" Ji Qingzhi said in a flattering tone. After all, that was indeed her plan.
Faintly, Ji Qingzhi seemed to hear the ancestor's chuckle, and then heard him say: "I can't be here all the time. If you want your father to wake up, you have to rely on your own efforts."
At this time, Ji Qingzhi suddenly found that the ancestor's voice was no longer as full of energy as before. She tried to recall it, and it seemed to be weaker each time. The guess in her heart made her subconsciously reject it. She asked carefully: "Ancestor, will you always be with me?"
Ji Qingzhi waited for a long time but he didn't come back. She told herself that everything was fine and it should be the same as before, but she didn't notice that her hands had begun to tremble slightly. Part of the reason why she has been able to be so tough these days is because of the existence of the ancestor. With him around, she has someone to guide her, so she is not afraid at all. But now it seems that the only people she can rely on are herself and the recipe she just exchanged.
It’s hard to tell how thick the recipe is. I only saw the first one saying that braised lion head is to be unlocked, and below are detailed instructions and methods. As I said, there are thousands of ways for thousands of people, and the final taste depends on personal foundation.
Ji Qingzhi sighed and slowly accepted the fact that her points had been reset to zero. As for the recipe, she would study it slowly. There were also tasks issued by the system. Thinking of the one thousand and nineteen that had been reset to zero, she began to pay special attention to the task of growing green onions.
*
In the online car-hailing service, Li Jian and Xu Yu'an chose the back seat. Zhang Zhihai opened the passenger door and the pain in his back when he bent down to get in the car reminded him of the creaking sound when he was thrown to the ground by that woman. He could still feel the pain in his back even when he leaned back in the chair. His face was gloomy. If it weren't for Li Jian and the others, he would never have let it go.
After getting off the bus, he did not go with the two people. Instead, he went to the pharmacy outside the school. He felt that he needed to buy some ointment or spray, otherwise he might not be able to get out of bed tomorrow.
"Is he going to do something weird again?" Li Jian frowned, looking annoyed.
"No, what he cares about most now is the scholarship." Xu Yu'an said affirmatively.
"That's good." Li Jian breathed a sigh of relief. He still wanted to continue going to Ji's Restaurant.
Zhang Zhihai went to the pharmacy and while waiting for someone to get him some ointment, he heard two female students chatting next to him: "Our Panpan performed very well in this variety show."
"Didn't Ji Qingzhi say that he would also participate? Why haven't I seen him?" The female voice was full of confusion.
"Does your village have internet? She didn't want to be outdone by Panpan in this variety show, so she decided to quit the circle." After saying that, she couldn't help but rolled her eyes.
"Retreat?"
"Here, look at what she sent at that time."
Zhang Zhihai was a little annoyed at first as to why the things had not been brought to him yet, but when he glanced inadvertently, he saw the profile picture on the phone next to him. The woman looked very much like the owner of the restaurant today.
Thinking about what they just said about quitting the circle, his eyes fell on the mobile phone screen again, and he remembered the name, Ji Qingzhi. At this moment, Zhang Zhihai's IQ was fully demonstrated. After all, those who can be admitted to Yunnan University are not stupid.
Without waiting for him to listen to their conversation carefully, the cotton swabs and iodine that the two of them wanted to buy were handed to them and they left. Then his plaster was also handed to him. Zhang Zhihai paid and left. Ji Qingzhi and the other two were also remembered in his mind.
The impression he left on these three words was so deep that he started searching on his phone as soon as he left the pharmacy. Soon a lot of related messages and pictures popped up. Although most of the pictures were of women with makeup on, he would never mistake those eyes. Thinking of this, Zhang Zhihai couldn't help but sneer.
*
When Jiang Wei came to pick up the braised food in the afternoon, Ji Qingzhi handed him two packages of braised food with a smile, and said, "Brother Wei, did you get off work early today?"
"I haven't gotten off work yet. I'm here to get this." Jiang Wei said with a sigh. Who else but him can be the best of the modern cattle and horses?
"Ah, do you have to go back to work overtime?" Ji Qingzhi said and looked at him sympathetically.
"Yeah, I'm tired of eating takeout after working overtime every day, so I come back to eat some braised food." Jiang Wei said half-jokingly and half-seriously.
"Okay, then try to get off work early?" Ji Qingzhi tried to comfort.
"Then I'll take your good wishes. By the way, Qingzhi, will you still make braised food tomorrow?" Jiang Wei asked casually.
"Yes, but I won't make too much. Do you want me to reserve some for you?" Ji Qingzhi had already made up his mind to make braised food every day. He would get points no matter how much he made, so he decided to make less.
"Well, you should leave two copies for me." Jiang Wei nodded. He has a football game to watch tomorrow night.
"Well, Brother Wei, eating a lot of braised food every day is quite unhealthy." Ji Qingzhi emphasized the pronunciation of the word "a lot" and reminded carefully.
Jiang Wei was amused by her: "Don't worry, it's just these two days."
"Okay, then enjoy your meal so you'll have motivation to work overtime." Ji Qingzhi said as he made a gesture to cheer him on.
Jiang Wei suddenly couldn't help but smile bitterly. She knew how to forget the stab in his heart. Does she need motivation to work overtime?
It had been more than half an hour since Jiang Wei returned to the company. He deliberately avoided the rush hour, otherwise it would take at least three hours to go back and forth.
The worker at the next workstation saw the bag in his hand and was surprised: "No, you went back just for this?"
"Yes, just for this taste." Jiang Wei said as he untied the plastic bag and opened the disposable lunch box. For a moment, the aroma of the braised food wafted into every corner where they breathed.
"Damn, it smells so good." It was already time to get off work and everyone was hungry. Now smelling this fragrance, wouldn't it be the end of them?
"Jiang Wei, what is this? Let me have a taste." Luo Kun next to him said as he took a chicken wing.
With Luo Kun's start, others also came over. Jiang Wei quickly picked up the take-away box: "No, this is my dinner, don't fight with me for it." The rice he ordered alone had not arrived yet.
"Jiang Wei, we have been colleagues for many years, it's not too much for me to try just one, right?" Someone stretched out a finger towards him, indicating that only one would be enough.
"That's right. I'll just try it. I'll give you my takeaway later."
"Who wants to eat takeout every day?" Jiang Wei picked up a piece of pork head and put it into his mouth while speaking. Yes, this is the taste. It is so delicious.
At this moment, the takeaway food has not arrived yet, and the two portions of braised food in Jiang Wei's hand have become meat in the wolf's den. Everyone is of similar age, so there is no rule in "fighting" for them. Fortunately, Jiang Wei still has reason: "Don't touch that portion, it's from the department next door."
"Oh, I see. It must be Qiao Yutong from next door." Everyone winked at each other.
Qiao Yutong is Jiang Wei's current ambiguous object. The two are just about to break the last layer of paper. Seeing them like this, Jiang Wei quickly begged for mercy: "The person is still waiting for me to take him away, so can you let me go?"
"Okay, but you have to leave what you have in your hand." At this moment, everyone was like a hungry wolves. Under the temptation of food, they wanted to swallow the braised food in his hand in one gulp.
Jiang Wei weighed the options for two seconds, then suddenly lowered his head and stuffed a mouthful of meat. Finally, he compromised and said, "Okay, okay, but remember to leave some for me. I ordered rice."
When Jiang Wei brought another portion of braised food to the department downstairs, he found that his clothes were all wrinkled by them. He shook his head helplessly, and finally handed the food to Qiao Yutong in the fire escape, saying gently: "You can eat this directly, and it tastes good when heated. Would you like to try it?"
"Thank you very much. I'll treat you to dinner after get off work tomorrow." Qiao Yutong said in a cheerful tone.
"Okay." Facing her smile, Jiang Wei had already forgotten his plan to watch the game tomorrow.
He watched Qiao Yutong's car leave before turning around and leaving the underground parking lot. When he returned to his seat, he found that his box of braised food was empty. There were several takeout boxes next to it. He guessed that they were the dishes they had left for him.
Jiang Wei shook his head, feeling angry and amused. Never mind. He had eaten takeout for so many days and didn't mind one more day. After he took the chopsticks and took a few bites, Luo Kun next to him leaned over to confirm that he had already started, so he pretended to be cute and said, "Jiang Wei, don't be angry after eating our food."
"So what?" Jiang Wei said expressionlessly. These guys would just keep pushing their luck.
"So can you give us the contact information of the boss of the braised food shop?" Luo Kun said and the people around him nodded.
"Now you know to ask for my contact information, why didn't you think of it when you were eating just now?" Jiang Wei said as he took a deep breath. Compared to the braised food just now, these dishes really tasted like chewing wax.
"Brother Wei, it's not enough that we are wrong. Just push the blame onto us and don't force me to kneel down and beg you." Luo Kun said the most cowardly words in the cruelest tone.
*
Ji Qingzhi didn't know that the braised food Jiang Wei brought back had caused such a dispute. She was communicating with the owner of the vegetable market on WeChat about the ingredients they needed. Aunt Liu next to her also had a list in her hand and was confirming it one by one. After all, she had to pick up the ingredients tomorrow morning.
Aunt Liu was listening carefully when she saw Ji Qingzhi suddenly raised his head and looked outside the store. She was a little confused: "What's wrong?"
"Nothing?" Ji Qingzhi shook her head. She thought maybe she was too sensitive. After all, things had been quiet these days.
By the next morning, Ji Qingzhi knew that her feeling last night was not wrong. She was indeed secretly photographed and even became a hot topic.
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